A three-part series to inspire Placemakers from all walks of life, whether they’re working inside City Hall and trying to figure out a better way to engage their constituents, or working in a local community and struggling to get City Hall’s attention.

Investments in Place Capital grow the shared wealth fundamental to sustainable communities. The public places we most value, both in our communities and around the world, have this wealth and further attract its preservation and expansion.

Public markets have often been the most socially diverse public places in a community, bringing people of different ages, genders, races ethnicities, and socioeconomic status together around the experiences of food, shopping, music and conversation.

Public markets are one of the few places where the divergent worlds of city and country meet and mutually support each other. Through commerce and conversation, public markets link urban and rural economies and communities.